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Carlsson, Mikael; Messina, Julián; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We study how workers’ wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms’ labor productivity.Using unique data with highly reliable firm-level output prices and quantities in themanufacturing sector in Sweden, we are able to derive measures of physical (as opposed torevenue) TFP to instrument...

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth …

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Solow Residuals without Capital Stocks

Burda, Michael C.; Severgnini, Battista - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008

productivity (TFP) growth in economics and management, yet little is known about its precision, especially when the capital stock … is poorly measured. Using synthetic data generated from a prototypical stochastic growth model, we explore the … state. As an application, we compute and compare TFP growth estimates using data from the new and old German federal states. …

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and RegionalInequality in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Min Qiang Zhao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Ourresults show that regional growth …

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Antidumping protection and productivityof domestic firms: a firm-level analysis

Konings, Jozef; Vandenbussche, Hylke - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics … - 2007

We analyze the relationship between Antidumping (AD) Protection and the productivity ofEU domestic firms in import-competing industries. For this purpose we identify a panel ofdomestic firms between 1993 and 2003 that at some point during this period are affected byAD initiations. Using a...

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Productivity and firm selection:intra- vs international trade

Corcos, Gregory; Del Gatto, Massimo; Mion, Giordano; … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics … - 2007

Recent theoretical models predict gains from international trade coming from intra-industryreallocations, due to a firm selection effect. In this paper we answer two related questions. First, whatis the magnitude of this selection effect, and how does it compare to that of intra-national trade...

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